2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
A Study on the Media History of Television Culture
| Project/Area Number |
16530348
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Sociology
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| Research Institution | Waseda University |
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Principal Investigator |
HASE Masato Waseda University, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Professor, 文学学術院, 教授 (40208476)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
NANBA Kouji Kansai University, Faculty of Sociology, Associate professor, 社会学部, 助教授 (20288997)
KITADA Akihiro University of Tokyo, Graduate school of interdisciplinary information studies, Associate professor, 大学院・情報学環, 助教授 (10313066)
NIWA Yoshiyuki Hosei University, Faculty of Sociology, Associate professor, 社会学部, 専任講師 (00366824)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2004 – 2005
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| Keywords | social communication / culture, social consciousness |
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| Research Abstract |
This project reconsidered the history of television as a media culture in Japan. Our keywords of analysis are ‘culture' and ‘media'. Television principally swung between these two poles. On the one hand it has provided many entertainment products-dramas and variety programs-as ‘culture'. On the others, it functions as the ‘media' which communicate a lot of events to audiences. As the satellite broadcast in Japan starts with a news of a President Kennedy assassination case, television broadcasts lively many events. In that case television doesn't provide cultural products but it only functions as a transparency media
This project analysis how the television has made its own history with two poles clashing mutually. In particular we focus on the television culture in 1970s. In 1980s as ‘'genki-ga-deru-terebi (encouraging television) 'shows it, the self-referential program is a mainstream of television culture. In 1960s as ‘yume-de-aimasyou-‘(shall we meet in the dream?) shows it, many programs are produced as cultural products. However in 1970s, though many television producers noticed a self referential character of televison, they can only make cultural products without any cynicism. We explored it not only with many contemporary documents-DVD, video, magazine, book-but through interviews of Tsuyuki Sigeru(a famous television announcer) and Yamada Taichi(a famous scenario writer).
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Research Products
(10 results)
